ARTS & CULTURE SATURDAY IN-DEPTH: 100 Breaking News & Top Stories 8/9

What does it mean to love a book? Should it be relatable ? Beautiful? Must you share common interests? Is it not just as exciting to curl up with one you don't fully understand? Today is National Book Lovers Day, so what better time to r...

In an official partnership with the New York City Department of Transportation, Ryan McGinness has erected 50 signs throughout Manhattan. The red-and-black compositions are the approximate shape and material of a standard street sign, bu...

DIY treehouses tend to, well, look it. That's not the case for this incredible home in Seattle, Washington, featured in the video above. It is closer to being a mini-mansion in the tree. Perhaps we need a new term for a structure like th...

Attention queer women: there may very soon be emojis just for you! From designer Kimberly Linn comes a series of humorous emojis intended to be used by women who have sex with women. While not necessarily available on a smartphone -- yet...

Gay men and vaginas -- historically, the two are worlds apart. So what happens when you ask a gay man to sit down and draw one? This is the question that led Keith Wilson and Shannon O'Malley to curate an ongoing public art project and u...

There are many amazing characters and creatures described in the Hebrew Bible, but elephants are not among them. Imagine the surprise of a team of archaeologists who were in the midst of their fourth summer of excavations at an ancient s...

This past week, an Indian fashion photographer by the name of Raj Shetye released photos of a new series called "The Wrong Turn" and well, it definitely took a wrong turn. The photos depict a bus gang rape that unintentionally reflects a...

1. Seeing is Hearing MIT engineers have developed a technique to "listen" to sound without the use of a microphone—audio can be recovered just from video by analyzing how an inanimate object (such as a bag...

From the early civilization days, human beings believed in culture. Every society practiced one or the other form of art or craft. Despite the rapid industrialization of the world, the rural communities continue to be the real flag beare...

Roger Sterling is universally adored by Mad Men's legion of fans, but as filming for the final season comes to an end, John Slattery makes his debut as a film director in God's Pocket, a project that is as far removed from that world as ...

The citys good humour seems to have become its official characteristic, bolstered by all this Commonwealth cheer. But of course, its a bit more complicated than that Glasgow is now established as one of the worlds friendliest cities, per...

Mark Baldwin | Mariinsky Ballet This remarkable project sees nine dancers from the Royal Ballet and Rambert, five musicians, the celebrated South African choir and Paul Simon collaborators, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, all teaming up with yo...

2015 is going to be a very BIG year for Shaun the Sheep ! Not only is he starring in his own movie in early 2015, but it has just been announced that 120 individually designed giant Shaun statues will be popping up in central locations i...

Walter Richard Sickert (1860-­‐1942) was the most influential and versatile British painter, print-maker, teacher and writer on art of the twentieth century. Celebrations, Dieppe is without doubt an iconic example of Sickert’s...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art launched today a new iPad app, 82nd & Fifth, in which 100 curators from across the Museum talk about 100 works of art from the Met's collection that changed the way they see the world—one work, one cur...

The first major retrospective exhibition ever presented of paintings by the imaginative Italian Renaissance master Piero di Cosimo (1462–1522) will premiere at the National Gallery of Art , Washington, from February 1 through May 3,...

It starts out laying flat, like a sheet of paper. Then it springs up, almost lifelike, and folds into moveable parts much like origami art. And then it crawls away. This new kind of robot could someday be used in space exploration, to sl...

Known for his grand wall painting depicting Pope Francis as a superhero (Super Pope), Mauro Pallotta , also known, as Maupal is much more than a street artist. This has been highlighted in his most recent exhibitions, where he has been n...

Nienke Bakker (b. 1972) has recently been appointed Curator of Van Gogh Paintings at the Van Gogh Museum . She is now responsible for the collection of paintings by Vincent van Gogh, the largest in the world with more than 200 paintings....

Located in Victoria Tower Gardens, adjacent to the Palace of Westminster, spectra is a column of intense white light punctuating the London sky from dusk until dawn for seven nights. Created by Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda, spectra first ...

Magnan Metz announces Freeze Frame, an exhibition of new works by Ewerdt Hilgemann. Freeze Frame coincides with the artist’s Park Avenue installation: Moments in a Stream, which consists of seven large scale sculptures placed along ...

Bonhams second sale this year of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art in London on October 7th features a variety of masterpieces from across the region. Building on the success of the April sale, which saw 86% of lots sold by valu...

This summer, Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents the work of Marc Quinn, one of the leading artists of his generation, in the Formal Garden. Quinn’s Cybernetically Engineered Cloned and Grown Rabbit, 2004 and Wilder Shores of Desire, ...

Royal Institute of British Architects Competitions and Bristol City Council announced the launch of an international competition to design a new arena for Bristol. The Bristol Arena project is a large indoor multipurpose arena, to be loc...

The Chrysler dedicates its first free Family Day since reopening to a celebration for America’s favorite firefighter: Smokey Bear. August 9 marks the iconic character’s 70th birthday and the debut of the Museum’s exhibitio...

Disgraced wine dealer Rudy Kurniawan was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday after he was found guilty of manufacturing fake vintages and selling them for nearly $30 million. The Indonesian-born 37-year-old, once considered one of t...

In January 2013 the ICA launched On the Road, a satellite exhibition program that seeks to expand the ICA's footprint beyond the gallery, serving its mission to support regional contemporary artists as well as significant artists based o...

French singer Yvette Giraud, who captured the hearts of an adoring Japanese fan base during a career spanning several decades, has died aged 97, her family announced on Friday. Giraud was even decorated by the Emperor of Japan, where she...

The Belo Collection of Texas Art — a thoughtfully-curated selection of 300 lots of artwork and photography, including David Bates' seminal The Blue Heron — will appear at Heritage Auctions on Oct. 18 as part of a day-long prese...

The finest known 1681 Elephant & Castle halfcrown highlights a wealth of British material in Heritage 's upcoming World & Ancient Coins Signature Auction, scheduled for September 3 - 5 in Long Beach, in conjunction with the Long Beach Co...

The New Museum announced that First Look, its ongoing series of digital projects, will now be co-curated and co-presented by longtime affiliate Rhizome. First Look was launched in 2012 by New Museum curator Lauren Cornell with “Imag...

The Aspen Art Museum will open the doors of its new, 33,000-square-foot Shigeru Ban-designed building to the public on Saturday, August 9, 2014. The new building, located at 637 East Hyman Avenue in the heart of downtown Aspen, opens dur...

The hotly anticipated new stage adaptation of the recent PETER PAN-centric film FINDING NEVERLAND is currently in previews out of town and a preliminary sneak peek of the score for the show is now available to hear.

An impressive collection of filmed plays featuring a host of world renowned performers is now available to order via BROADWAY THEATRE ARCHIVE GREAT PERFORMANCES Set 1, which includes the plays DEATH OF A SALESMAN, FOR COLORED GIRLS..., U...

5000 Broadway Productions presents its newest production, Vestments of the Gods, as part of the 18th annual New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC. Vestments of the Gods is a musical play written by Owen Panettieri with music...

We’re gonna be honest: Things around the Broadway.com offices have gotten really boring the last few weeks. It’s sweltering, it’s humid, and worst of all, no new Broadway shows open until after Labor Day. But never fear...

Playbill.com's weekly planner reminds you about free performances from Rosanne Cash, the casts of Motown and Matilda the Musical … Sutton Foster hops the bus out of Broadway… "Frozen" in summer… and Ton...

1967 Playwright Joe Orton is found dead today in his London flat. Also found dead is his companion, writer and actor Kenneth Halliwell. It appears that Halliwell murdered the Loot playwright and then killed himself.

PRIDE is about the extraordinary true story of two very different communities who unite to defend the same cause. Below, check out a brand new trailer for the film, featuring theatre stars Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton and Dominic West The...

Deadline writes that Open Road is developing SPOTLIGHT, a film centering on the Boston Globe's investigation into pedophile priests in the Catholic Church. Tom McCarthy directs from a script he co-wrote with Josh Singer The West Wing. Ma...

This is the fourth in our series of eight short stories on the theme of conflict. The context is the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War, but the theme is open to the author’s interpretation. The last story in the series will be c...

A great, big Broadway season is on its way, with fourteen productions already slated to open in the next few months. With several weeks until the craziness begins, there is still plenty of time to catch up on what's been going on at Broa...

The 2014-2015 season of 'Concerts from the Library of Congress' brings a stellar roster of performers, ensembles and scholars from around the world in commemoration of the 150th birthday of founding patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. The...

The Old Globe today announced additional performances for the third production of the 2014 Summer Season, Ronald Harwood's comedy Quartet, directed by Richard Seer Other Desert Cities, God of Carnage, The Last Romance. Harwood received a...

Singer/songwriter Shaun Shears can count being the only severely disabled singer on iTunes among his long list of achievements. He is performing his latest show, The Man, the Music, the Panj, at Edinburgh this month…

It's time to celebrate Goodspeed Musicals announces a top-notch cast for its brand new, world premiere musical, Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn. The much-anticipated production will run from September 19 through November 30. Official Press O...

The 2014-15 season of Concerts from the Library of Congress wil bring performers, ensembles and scholars from around the world in commemoration of the 150th birthday of founding patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge - in a lineup that will i...

Whether you've been living under a rock for the past week or you're just in the mood for a recap, BroadwayWorld's 'this week in pictures' is here to satisfy your end-of-the-week fix Take a look below to catch up on the latest happenings ...

On William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday in April, the Globe Theatre in London, England, launched a touring eight-actor production of Hamlet that, if all goes according to plan, will visit 205 countries over two years

Casting has been completed for the world premiere of Jordan Harrison's 'Marjorie Prime,' opening September 21, 2014, at the Center Theatre GroupMark Taper Forum. Directed by Obie Award-winner Les Waters, the profound and engaging new pla...

Film isn't dead — not yet, at least. Kodak recently announced that it will keep making film stock for motion pictures despite a dramatic drop in sales, after a handful of high-profile directors advocated for it. But, since the medium's d...

Douglas Preston wrote an open letter supporting book publisher Hachette in its dispute with Amazon, which has since spread among his readers and throughout the literary community. More than 900 other writers have signed on, including Joh...

Why do some actors make it and others don't Ken Womble sets out to find the answer to this question, one that has fascinated and tormented him for years, in his new book, INSIDE ACT How Ten Actors Made it and How You Can Too Hansen Publi...